Bachmann: I don't hate 'the Muslim people'

“I haven’t heard that,” she told POLITICO as she hopped on her bus at the end of the first stop. “It’s kind of an odd thing to say, I think. I think the Iranian threat is real. That doesn’t mean that I hate the Muslim people.”

The comments came at the end of her first of 13 stops on a bus tour to get to all 99 counties.

She arrived 20 minutes late to the Hy-Vee grocery store here, starting the drive to the second stop 21 miles away just two minutes before it was supposed to begin.